Neidenburg (Ordensburg)
| Neidenburg | ||
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.jpg) The Neidenburg |
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| Creation time : | circa 1370 | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Ordensburg | |
| Construction: | Brick gothic | |
| Place: | Nidzica | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 21 '34.8 " N , 20 ° 25' 44.6" E | |
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The Neidenburg is a Gothic Teutonic castle in Nidzica in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland .
history
A previous building was built between 1266 and 1268, the place itself was first mentioned in 1376. The brick castle was built between 1370 and 1409. A settlement grew around the castle, to which the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Winrich von Kniprode granted city privilege on December 7, 1381 . From 1525 the castle was the seat of an official governor. In 1806 Friedrich Wilhelm III stayed here .
French soldiers were stationed at the castle between 1806 and 1812, and when they withdrew, they devastated the entire complex.
From 1829 to 1830 it was largely restored through the efforts of the District Justice Council Timotheus Gregorovius. His son Ferdinand Gregorovius had a monument erected on the castle hill in his honor; in which the urn of the latter was also buried in 1912. A court, a prison and a hotel were housed. The castle survived the First World War without any problems.
After the partial destruction during the Second World War, the Neidenburg was rebuilt.
Today it houses a museum, a hotel and a cultural center.
literature
- Tomasz Torbus: The convent castles in the Teutonic Order of Prussia . Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56358-0 .
